As everyone knows, it isn't free for the board owner to setup and maintain a UBB, like M&M. But Steve has never asked for a donation, or sold memberships like other forums do. The most I've seen him do is cheerfully remind people about the Amazon link for their Amazon.com purchases because M&M receives a very small percentage of whatever is purchased.

But recently, it was made known Steve can't hold back time, or progress (server wise) and he's forced with the decision to upgrade M&M to a vBulletin version of UBB in order for M&M to continue functioning.

There are a few threads in Sam's Place that contain more info, if you'd like to read about it.

http://www.mustangsandmore.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/022286.html

http://www.mustangsandmore.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/022293.html

http://www.mustangsandmore.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/022329.html

Anyway, let me cut to the chase, quite a few members have used the Paypal donation button (link) at the bottom of the M&M page, and contributed cash to help defray the cost of Steve's out of pocket expense to buy a vBulletin license, so he can keep M&M going.

Since there are those who stay within their regular forums, they may not know about this membership driven donation drive.

A number of years ago, the membership here got together and helped out one of their own, and through donations, bought the member (who was suffering thru a serious medical condition that drained his funds) a new computer so he could stay connected to M&M.

Last year, quite a few of the members donated to MoneyMaker Racing to help defray the enormous cost of racing.

More recently, the membership got together and helped a member who had been dislocated from his home in New Orleans, retrieve his Mustang from that area.

I only bring these points up because I know the M&M members can step up to the plate and help.

In this case, we're helping ourselves by donating to M&M so it can be upgraded. We will all benefit from this upgrade and since we've always felt like a community family here, I thought create a post reaching out to the guys and gals who don't normally go to Sam's Place.

I know money is tight for a lot of guys, especially with the Christmas season approaching, so please, give only if you can.

Stewart

PS - I didn't get authorization for this post, so Steve had no idea I was gonna post this.

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Black '99 Lightning (my work truck)
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2000 7.3L PSD Excursion (The wife's)
- AFE Stage 2, MBRP 4", Beans 1.0 exhaust housing & WW, DP-Tuner F5 chip, ITP Overboost Annihilator and pre-pump mods, Prodigy brake controller, B & V code spring upgrade, Bilsteins, & Hellwig rear sway.

1990 Platinum GT: 25th Year Anniversary Edition
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